Before starting the onboarding process for LS Insight, you need to make sure that your customer fulfills the requirements listed below.
LS Central
The customer must have an LS Central license and an active maintenance agreement with LS Retail during setup and use of LS Insight.
- LS Insight is built on top of LS Central and is only available free of charge to LS Retail partners and customers that are on active maintenance.
The customer must be on LS Central version 8.4 or later on-premises or the latest version in-cloud (SaaS).
- LS Insight has been developed to support specific versions of LS Nav and LS Central.
- LS Insight from version 2020.5 supports setup with LS Central in cloud from version 17.0.
The customer's LS Central setup must fulfill Microsoft Business Central requirements
- LS Insight makes the same system requirements to the LS Central database as are made for Business Central from Microsoft. These can include hardware, SQL server, and operation system requirements.
Access to virtual or physical server
Before starting the LS Insight setup process, you should have access to a server (virtual or on-premises). The usage of this server differs between the different setup environments so therefore we have named them differently and it is best to review the server setup for the LS Insight setup you will be using.
Here are links to server setup page from the different onboarding processes:
Gateway server setup for LS Central on-prem and LS Insight in Azure
LS Insight server setup for LS Central on-prem and LS Insight database on-prem
Scheduler server setup for LS Central in cloud and LS Insight in Azure
External subscriptions
The customer must have or be willing to create a subscription for Power BI.
- The customer must have a Power BI Pro account subscription to be able to publish and share the Power BI reports with his organization.
The customer must have or be willing to create a subscription for Azure.
- LS Insight is set up in Azure under the customers account. The cost of a typical LS Insight system is around 100 USD a month, assuming that pipelines are run once every 24 hours to refresh the warehouse data.
- We have gathered some information about the Azure cost estimate and given an example for a standard LS Insight schedule.
More details about the subscription setup can be found in the onboarding process.